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- Sir Francis Kynaston: The importance of the ‘Nation’ for a 17th-century English royalist
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Anatomizing the social body: representing the plague in London, 1665
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will analyze the motivations behind a broadsheet produced in response to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the City of London in 1665. -
Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsAlice Thornton’s accounts of the pains and perils of childbirth, including this passage on the birth of her fifth child, have attracted the attention of a number of recent historians as particularly detailed and evocative examples of personal testimony to the experience of giving birth in the early modern period. -
Below stairs at Arbury Hall: Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c.1670–1710
Posted on February 9, 2012 | No CommentsIn all these spheres of activity, Newdigate had a preference for micro-management which sat very uneasily with his irascible, volatile personality. He was, therefore, the worst type of control-freak: that is,none with time on his hands -
The English Diplomatic Corps, 1649-1660: a comparison Of the diplomats of the Commonwealth and Protectorate and of Charles II
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsOther historians have conducted prosopographical studies of British diplomats, but no one has studied the diplomats during the time of the Commonwealth and Protectorate. -
High crimes: the law of treason in late Stuart Britain
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThis is the first work on treason to concentrate exclusively on the all important years between the Restoration and the Union, when the number of trials for this most serious of all crimes reached new heights and during which time the procedural law of treason underwent significant changes. -
The contexts and contours of British economic literature, 1660-1760
Posted on December 12, 2011 | No CommentsIn the century after the Restoration of Charles II there was a remarkable outpouring of thinking about economic issues in Britain, of exploring the ways and means to prosperity and plenty. -
Signs and Wonders and the English Civil War
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsChris Durston records how the monstrous and the supernatural were seized on by political and religious factions in seventeenth century England as signs of judgment. -
All Singing, All Dancing
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsSexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. -
In Defense of the Monarchy: The Restoration of Charles Stuart
Posted on November 12, 2011 | No CommentsCharles was determined to go home as King; his mind was full of doubt and his heart was bursting with contradictory emotions. He must not dare to hope, but how could he not? -
The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700
Posted on October 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture:Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700 McKeever, Amanda Jane PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Sussex, September 27, (2010) Abstract My thesis seeks to address... -
The bio-medical pursuits of Christopher Wren
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsI suppose that anyone who reads the English language sooner or later crosses the path of Christopher Wren. A meteorologist, an astronomer... -
Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsMargaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends Rachel Warburton – Lakehead University Session: “English Epistolary Friendships” Paper given at the conference: Friendship In Pre-Modern Europe (1300-1700) This paper analysed Margaret Cavendish’s sociable letters. They... -
Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsInventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope Warnicke, Retha M. (Arizona State University) Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,... -
Political Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering the Relationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering theRelationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England Ridge, Steve (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London) Ex... -
The Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne’s poetry
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsThe Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne’s poetry Green, Paul D. Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract The author of Histriomastix, the mortal enemy of... -
“That vain Animal”: Rochester’s Satyr and the Theriophilic Paradox
Posted on April 24, 2010 | No Comments“That vain Animal”: Rochester’s Satyr and the Theriophilic Paradox Rosenfeld, Nancy Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract The Satyr against Reason and Mankind by John Wilmot, second Earl... -
“To stand upright will ask thee skill”: The Pinnacle and the Paradigm
Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments“To stand upright will ask thee skill”: The Pinnacle and the Paradigm Barton, Carol Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000) Abstract Paradise Regain’d was considered inferior to the diffuse... -
“In this dark world and wide”: Samson Agonistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments“In this dark world and wide”: Samson Agonistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism Barton, Carol Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999) Abstract In this essay, I argue that... -
England as Israel in Milton’s Writings
Posted on March 18, 2010 | No CommentsEngland as Israel in Milton’s Writings Hale, John K. Early Modern Literary Studies 2.2 (August 1996): Contents Abstract By surveying Milton’s use and non-use of certain biblical images, this essay... -
Milton’s Titles
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsMilton’s Titles Hale, John K. Early Modern Literary Studies 13.1 (May, 2007) Abstract Milton’s titling practices are examined from four main standpoints. First, ideas about titling as a speech-act are... -
“With Honour Quit the Fort”: Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden’s Amboyna
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments“With Honour Quit the Fort”: Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden’s Amboyna Schille, Candy B. K. Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) Abstract The essay argues that Amboyna, its subject and... -
Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsLove, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century English Women Dramatists Corporaal, Marguérite Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) Abstract In tragicomedies by seventeenth-century English women, such as Lady... -
Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsMourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost Hodgson, Elizabeth M. A. Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) Abstract Hamlet’s mourning black seems to be a form of armour which... -
Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsRomancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World Wagner, Geraldine Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract By exploring the mutually constitutive relationship between... -
Paradise Lost and the Acoustics of Hell
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No CommentsParadise Lost and the Acoustics of Hell Steggle, Matthew Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1/ Special Issue 8 (May, 2001) Abstract What does Hell sound like? Almost all the accounts of... -
Marvell’s Now
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsMarvell’s Now Raman, Shankar Early Modern Culture, No. 6 (2007) Abstract If the subsequent line — “So restless Cromwell could not cease” — identifies the “forward youth” with the man... -
Conning the “Overseers”: Women’s Illicit Work in Behn’s “The Adventure of the Black Lady”
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsConning the “Overseers”: Women’s Illicit Work in Behn’s “The Adventure of the Black Lady” Ferguson, Margaret Early Modern Culture, No. 5 (2006) Abstract Having spent some fifteen years thinking (off... -
Why Poetry?
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsWhy Poetry? Keith, Jennifer The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract In a cultural climate and scholarly marketplace that increasingly marginalize poetry, especially eighteenth-century poetry, relatively few... -
The politics of London air : John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium’ and the Restoration
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsThe politics of London air : John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium’ and the Restoration By Mark Jenner The Historical Journal, Vol.38:3 (1995) Abstract: Historians have commonly described John Evelyn’s pamphlet about London...